Inside the Canada Southern Train Station in St. Thomas, Ontario in 2008, just before the station underwent a complete restoration. I was fortunate enough to have a complete morning alone, wandering around this old train station taking pictures. My hard drive is full of shots like this, but this one I particularly like, the old desk, the lighting and the textures all work together.

This dramatic shot was taken with the sun setting in the west, and a storm in the east, which always makes for great lighting. I can't recall where this was, but probably driving somewhere and couldn't help but stop to take the shot.

Well the interesting fall weather kept me from getting anything productive done this afternoon. I tried to resist, but ended up grabbing the camera to snap a few against the dramatic skies. Just outside of Port Dover on highway 6.

This was a real pain to try to photograph. To get up high enough to see it, one has to climb up about 600' of mountain on an unmarked trail. Otherwise, the only way to see it is from that boardwalk in the image, which offers an interesting, but less than stellar view of the pool.

One of those chance photos that if you are in the right spot at the right time, you get a great picture! I was just driving around this day, down near Long Point, Ontario, where the windmill farms are and off on the horizon was a quick sun shower. This created a brief, but intense rainbow against a sun lit landscape. I snapped a bunch of shots of it from out of the car window while it lasted…

The annual Norfolk County Fair and Horse Show in Simcoe, Ontario in October is a classic fall fair. While wandering around the midway on opening day, I snapped this shot of one of those swing rides. I took a few typical shots of the ride in motion, but decided not to use them as every series of fall fair images always has a shot of this ride lit up at night with a long exposure. While that usually looks good, I try to avoid the same image everyone else takes.

Instead I got in close while the ride was waiting for more passengers and after a few tries got a fairly crisp shot of the swings. The rich colours of the ride and the bright lights made for an interesting shot.

The Norfolk County Fair! Every October is the county fair in Simcoe, Ontario. It is pretty much the same thing every year, but I go a couple times anyway. They have a great display of local goodies produced at the area farms, and of course these are always very photogenic. There were dozens of these baskets of produce on display, and I’d have loved to get up higher to get a wide angle shot of all of them, that would make a great shot. Not having a set of stairs with me, I had to make due with just holding up the camera above my head.

This is one of my favorite shots. The soft lighting, the pensive girl and the great textures of the old building combine for what I think is one of my best images. Oddly, this image sat on my hard drive for four years before I discovered it. Taken in 2008 at the Canada Southern Train Station in St. Thomas, Ontario just before the station was completely restored.